Self-Care for Your Brain: Building Resilience with Music and Meditation
WHILE THE LIFE of an activist can be meaningful, it also has many challenges. We often witness, directly or indirectly, the realities of human rights violations, the complexities of bureaucracy, and the absolute indifference (or... Read More
Two Good Humans: The Friendship Between Carl Sagan and Kurt Vonnegut
CARL SAGAN FIRST ENTERED KURT VONNEGUT'S ORBIT IN 1966. The satirist was working at the time as a creative writing professor at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the heavy teaching load was taking... Read More
Solutions for Food, Energy, and Water Challenges Faced by Indigenous Communities
Presented January 14, 2021 At the University of Arizona, our Indigenous Food, Energy, Water, Security, and Sovereignty program works on solutions to challenges faced by Indigenous communities in a way that involves the community in... Read More
A More Equitable Future in Environment, Economy, and Energy
Presented January 21, 2021 I wrote my book, Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy, because I realized that a lot of the same people and ideas about climate have... Read More
Our Health and the Environment’s Health
Presented January 28, 2021 Gloria E. Barrera I began testifying on environmental issues on behalf of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE), and now frequently speak to local and federal policymakers advocating for... Read More
Where Do We Go from Here? Solutions for the Environment
Presented February 4, 2021 Joelle Novey Interfaith Power and Light (IPL) is working with hundreds of congregations of all backgrounds and traditions across the DC, Maryland, and northern Virginia region to find a moral response... Read More
Journeys to Humanism: “Thank God” I Am a Humanist
Journeys to Humanism, theHumanist.com’s regular series, features real stories from humanists in our community. From heartwarming narratives of growth, to more difficult journeys, our readers open up about their experiences coming to humanism. Kalai Mugilan... Read More